Rick

I’m from Alabama. My boss is from Boston. We both live in Utah and say “ya’ll”. Instead of being regionalized, it has entered the national vernacular. Let us pray that “ain’t” doesn’t follow on it’s heels as an acceptable word.

Omar Karindu

There’s a good argument to include “ain’t,” really — “am not” is the only case of “to be + negator” without a useful contraction in English. We have “aren’t” and “isn’t” and “wasn’t” but nothing for first person singular.

Derek B. Haas

“Amn’t” is physically difficult to pronounce. “Ain’t” is quite possibly a form of it–I’d have to check the OED to really be sure. And “y’all” is winning over “youse” and “youse guys” as a second-person plural, much to my Jersey-born chagrin.

SonTenks

Patrick C.

Did Jock ever take home an Eisner for these covers? I seem to remember him getting continuously beat out by James Jean, who is, don’t get me wrong, incredible. But I would have liked very much to see Jock get an Eisner during the run of this book, because he did absolutely stellar work month in and month out.

Beautiful stuff; I loved these when the book was coming out. And yes, the interiors were every bit as good as the covers (the ones Jock illustrated anyway; there were lots of fill-in artists that were decent but never up to his level). One note: #19, the one with the coffins, is actually part of what Brian would call a six-tych, I believe (unless there were only four parts), in which all the covers in the storyline formed one image. It’s pretty sweet.